A reference guide for Ansible, a tool that automates server configuration and application deployment using playbooks. It covers playbooks, roles, inventories, variables, modules, and integrations with Proxmox VE and Docker.

Use it to write or troubleshoot playbooks, configure hosts and variables, run checks or deployments, use tags, install collections, and work with Proxmox or Docker.

It gives you relevant commands and reference material when writing automation or diagnosing an Ansible run.

ansible — Skill for Claude Code by poindexter12

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add poindexter12/waypoint --skill ansible

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poindexter12/waypoint

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install technologies, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,238 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00096	$0.01238
Opus 5	$0.00048	$0.00619
Sonnet 5	$0.00019	$0.00248
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00124

Measured 10d ago against content hash 843756a6ab61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ansible scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

technologies/skills/ansible/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ansible Skill

Ansible automation reference for configuration management and application deployment.

Quick Reference

# Test connectivity
ansible all -m ping
ansible <group> -m ping

# Run playbook
ansible-playbook playbook.yml
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -l <host>    # Limit to host
ansible-playbook playbook.yml --check      # Dry-run
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -vvv         # Verbose

# Tags
ansible-playbook playbook.yml --tags "deploy"
ansible-playbook playbook.yml --skip-tags "backup"
ansible-playbook playbook.yml --list-tags

# Variables
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e "var=value"
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e "@vars.yml"

# Ad-hoc commands
ansible <group> -m shell -a "command"
ansible <group> -m copy -a "src=file dest=/path"
ansible <group> -m apt -a "name=package state=present"

# Galaxy
ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
ansible-galaxy role install <role>

Reference Files

Load on-demand based on task:

Topic	File	When to Load
Playbook Structure	playbooks.md	Writing playbooks
Inventory	inventory.md	Host/group configuration
Variables	variables.md	Variable precedence, facts
Modules	modules.md	Common module reference
Troubleshooting	troubleshooting.md	Common errors, debugging

Proxmox Integration

Topic	File	When to Load
Proxmox Modules	proxmox/modules.md	VM/LXC management via API
Proxmox Auth	proxmox/authentication.md	API tokens, credentials
Proxmox Gotchas	proxmox/gotchas.md	Common issues, workarounds
Dynamic Inventory	proxmox/dynamic-inventory.md	Auto-discover VMs/containers

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

12 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

10d ago First seen · 164 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 843756a6ab61

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ansible is a skill published in the GitHub repository poindexter12/waypoint (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,238 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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